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This is a more-or-less minor relese. Besides an Arabic translation it’s now possible to view non-albums, but in this version only when viewing an album directly. It will not work when viewing all albums (not yet). Just use the tag like this (the token is generated by picasaweb, so you have to look there):

[picasaView album='ALBUMNAME' authkey='AUTHTOKEN']

The current Debian Lenny installation comes with a pretty old ImageMagick-package. In my case I need ImageMagick for the IMagick-extension in PHP. As IMagick compiles against the currently installed ImageMagick-version, it’s also necessary to re-install the IMagick-package.

As I had some problems with this, I thought I’d share this information, maybe it’s useful for someone. A big help was this article where I took some commands from.

1. Download, extract and install new ImageMagick-version

I don’t use any more configuration options with ImageMagick, so you might enhance the ./configure statement

wget ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-6.6.2-6.tar.gz
tar xvzf ImageMagick-6.6.2-6.tar.gz
cd ImageMagick-6.6.2-6
./configure
make
make install

You can delete the ImageMagick and the extraction dir afterwards.

2. Make the new ImageMagick-installation “known” to the system

Create or edit the file /etc/ld.so.conf and add the following line

include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf

Create or edit the file /etc/ld.so.conf and add the following:

# Added because we built ImageMagick from source
/usr/local/lib

Open bashrc (e.g. nano ~/.bashrc) and add the following:

# Set LD Lib path
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Re-link the libraries:

ldconfig

3. Re-Install IMagick package

At this point, ImageMagic is ready to go, but we need to re-install the IMagick-Package again (so it can compile against the new ImageMagick version):

pecl uninstall imagick
pecl install imagick

Maybe you need to restart Apache then:

apache2ctl restart

If all went well, you can take a look at a phpinfo-page to see if the new ImageMagick-version is ready. It should look like this:

I hope this helps!

It’s just a minor release, fixing a small bug with a template variable, adding some translations (thanks to the guys who contributed) and changing the html into a table less layout.

This release contains only two minor additions. A new placeholder can now be used in the template albumDetails.html to output a simple image counter. And I added a Dutch translation (thanks to Stef Segers).

Today I replaced the discontinued theme “avenue” I used before with “iowa Pro”. It’s a really great theme that’s highly customizable. I only replaced the header image with an self-made one. If you’re interested in this theme you can get it here. Happy New Year by the way

This version is only a minor release. The polish translation has been added (thanks to Michał Stochliński) along with the .po-files for further translations and a documentation bug in the readme.txt has been fixed: when using “instantview” as attribute, a value has to be specified, e.g. “instantview=’yes’”.

This is the last release for this year, so I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

It took some time, but finally here it is – version 1.1 of picasaView. Besides mandatory bugfixes I switched to WordPress own shortcode-API which should make the whole thing more compatible, and to WordPress’ URL-API so there is no more need to select the connection type for yourself. But please do take a look at the history page for a complete changelog. I hope, you like it!

Today I released version 1.0.1. The update contains a bugfix that caused the page to look ugly, when quickPaging was enabled. This only occured when the images were not already in the browser’s cache. For better troubleshooting I also improved the CURL messages to be more precise when something went wrong.

After a long time I finally released version 1.0 of picasaView. The code was completely rewritten to feature more flexibility for future versions. Besides some bugfixes, albums can now be shown directly with the “instantView”-option and nearly all settings of the admin-options page can be overwritten directly in the tag. That means, you can have multiple picasaView-tags on your blog (and even in the same post) with completely different settings in image size, server or user-id (and some more). See the readme.txt for more details.

If you find any bugs or have tips for improvement, please drop me a line!

After a long time without any updates I just wanted to post a little life-sign. I’m still there! The next version is due (needs some testing before – if you’re interested, please contact me) and has some new features like instantView (directly print images of an album in a post) and way more flexibility in integration – this means you will be able to overwrite all default settings on each picasaView-call. So you can view multiple albums of different users with different settings in your blog. So please be patient for a few more days (I’m a little bit lazy I admit…)!

And thank you for all your feedback so far!